Author: Boris Falikov The re-enchantment that started in the USSR after many years of forced secularization was unique as the continuity from pre-revolutionary Russia was mainly broken, and the iron curtain separated...
Author: Andrei Tiukhtiaev In this essay, I am going to talk about one paradox of social belonging that can be found among followers of New Age spirituality. I encountered this paradox during...
Author: Sergei Shtyrkov The Republic of North Ossetia is special among other North Caucasian national republics of Russia (“national” means having a non-Russian ethnic majority as the main nation, the titular ethnic...
Author: Julia Andreeva For many religious groups in Russia references to “folk,” “traditional,” and “heritage” play an important role in their popular theology. Usually, these markers allow them to emphasize the antagonism...
